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Shipbuilding is conducted at Troon, Ayr, Irvine and Fairlie, which is famous for its yachts.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Ffestiniog Railway: A 'Fairlie' good day at Porthmadog!
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Ffestiniog Railway: A 'Fairlie' good day at Porthmadog!
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Ffestiniog Railway: A 'Fairlie' good day at Porthmadog!
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As well as the market garden in Chagford, which he set up with his wife Yssy, and Chinnie, he's also the co-editor of the Land, "An Occasional Magazine About Land Rights" founded by the veteran land campaigner Simon Fairlie.
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Originally there were four Misses Curr, Margery, Kitty, Elaine, and Fairlie, but I have only the dimmest recollection of two, then one: Fairlie.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Fairlie's online survey of 574 full- or part-timers found meaningful work is important to all ages.
Incivility a growing problem at work, psychologists say 2011
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As companies buy out and lay off workers while expecting to keep productivity up, the niceties suffer, suggests psychologist and researcher Paul Fairlie of Toronto: White-collar work is becoming a little more blue-collar.
Incivility a growing problem at work, psychologists say 2011
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Most of the quotations in that paragraph come from an essay Fairlie wrote for The Washington Post after he watched, aghast, as the 1980 GOP convention nominated Reagan.
Joseph Stack, Henry Fairlie, and the ‘Capitalist Creed’ 2010
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Fairlie inveighed for years against the perils of capitalism (as a tory, he believed its unchecked power coarsened and destabilized society), but in the passage echoed by Stack's note, he was denouncing the capitalistic tendencies of televangelists, not capitalism itself.
Joseph Stack, Henry Fairlie, and the ‘Capitalist Creed’ 2010
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